Lighting-fixture.



E. RGUTH.

LIGHTING FIXTURE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.13,19 13 Patented Dec. 23, 1913.

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LIGHTING-FIXTURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented Dec. 23, 1913.

Application filed Februarylti, 1913. Serial No. 748,086.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN F. GUTH, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have inventeda certain new and useful Lighting-Fixture, of which the following is such a full,.clear,and exact description as will enable any one skilled in the art to. which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to a lighting fixture and more particularly to a new form of a supporting member therefor. Its objects are to .produce a fixture of simple but secure construction and a supporting member which may be readily attached to or over any form of ceiling outlet, and onewhich will render unnecessary the use of insulating joints.

Other objects and advantages will appear from the more detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings in'which,

Figure 1 is a view, partly in section and partly in elevation, showin the details of the fixture; Fig. 2, a top pIan view of the fixture supporting member; and Fig. 3, a side elevation of a fixture embodying my invention.-

1 represents the ceiling, 2 a junction box therein, and 3 a conduit for electric wires communicating with the junction box. A fixture supporting member having a central and, usually, fiat ortion 4 and depending arms 5, is secured to the junction box by means of a coupling, or connecting member 6 and the nut 7 in threaded engagement therewith.

In lieu of the connecting means just described, the fixture supporting member may be connected to the ceiling or junction box by means of screws passing through small openings in the central portion 4 indicated in Fig. 2.

The central portion of the supporting member 4 is provided with openings through which the electric wires may pass to the lamp socket 9 and on the under side of this central portion are lugs or projections 8 to which the lamp socket is attached, preferably by means of screws. The threaded bolts 10 pass through the canopy 11 into the horizontal portion of the arms 5 and thus support the canopy. Also attached to these bolts 10 are chains 12 with terminal hooks which support the shade or bowl 13. The bowl 13 and the canopy 11 are ordi narily of glass. the bowl being preferably translucent. This bowl may be readilydetached from the remainder of the fixture and it will also be noted that it and the canopy 11 are from the arms 5 with the result that should the canopy be broken, the bowl would still be supported.

Itis apparent that my improved supporting member may be readily attached over any sort of a ceiling outlet and, also, that the ceiling canopy, which is necessary in all installations, need not be insulated from the ceiling when supported from it, even though the canopy be of conducting material.

' Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent of the United States is:

1. In combination, a junction box, a fixture supporting member having a central portion extending over the junction box and supported therefrom, fixture supporting arms depending from and integralwith the central portion, and socket supporting lugs projecting from the lower surface of the central portion.

2. In combination, a junction box, a ceiling canopy, a supporting member having a central portion extending over the opening of the junction box,'and depending arms integral with the central portion and supportingthe canopy.

3. In a lighting fixture, the combination with a supporting member suitably attached to the ceiling and having depending arms,

of a glass canopy covering said member and supported from the arms thereof, a shade or other light directing or controlling device below the canopy and also supported from the depending arms of the supporting member.

4-. In a lighting fixture, the combination with a supporting member suitably attached to the ceiling and having depending arms, of a canopy, a shade or other light directing or controlling device below the canopy, and means for securing the canopy to the depending arms of the supporting member, said means also supporting the shade.

5. In a lighting fixture, the. combination with a supporting member suitably attached to the ceiling and having depending arms, of a canopy, a shade or-othcr light directing independently supported or controlling device below the canopy, bolts passing through the canopy and each engaging with a depending arm of the supporting member for securing the canopy to said arms, and means for supporting the shade from said bolts.

6. In combination, a junction box, a fixture supporting member having a central portion extending over the junction box and provided with a central opening, a member passing through said opening and connecting the fixture supporting member to the junction box, and fixture supporting arms depending from and integral witl1 the cen- '-tral portion of the fixture supporting member.

,7. In a lighting fixture, the combination with a supporting member suitably attached to the ceiling and having depending arms,

of a canopy, a shade or other light directing or controlling device below the canopy, means for securing the canopy to the depending arms of the supporting member,

and shade supporting devices also attached to the depending arms of the supporting member and provided with terminal hooks engaging Wltlrthfl shade.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto 

